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By Robert Gammon

Published: October 26, 2017

Stories you shouldn’t miss for Oct. 26, 2017:

1. Oakland’s Jack London Square is slated to get a 155-room hotel under a plan by developer CIM Group, reports Katie Burke of the San Francisco Business Times$. The Los Angeles-based developer is proposing to build the six-story hotel on vacant land next to the waterfront. CIM also has approvals for two apartment buildings at Jack London, one with 121 units and the other with 326 units.

2. The Trump administration backtracked on an unexpected announcement yesterday that it had withdrawn support for the Gov. Jerry Brown’s massive water tunnels plan, saying that it meant to say it had no intention of helping fund or build the project, reports Carolyn Lochhead of the San Francisco Chronicle$. Brown wants to build two giant water tunnels underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

4. A federal judge in San Francisco refused to block President Trump’s decision to cut off subsidies to insurance companies, rebuffing legal action brought by California Attorney General Xavier Beccera and 16 other state attorneys general, the LA Times$ reports. The subsidies are designed to help fund health insurance for low-income Americans, but U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria indicated that Trump has the legal authority to shut them off.